LÜGEN(2023)

The New Empress(en)

So your boyfriend's broken up with your and your broke and hungry? Just stage a bunch of fake proposals and chow down.

Light Up the Night(en)

Light Up the Night is an analog science-fiction short film set in an Orwellian, futuristic 1980s. The story tells the tensions flaring between rebellious citizens and robotic law enforcement. We are introduced to two dissidents as they take aim at the city's looming, panoptic control tower, while local band The Protomen take the stage amidst the action, inciting unrest as they narrate the struggle.

Dodudindon(fr)

Film produced as an opening short for the 2009 Annecy International Animation Film Festival (FIFA).

Margo & Perry(en)

A disillusioned twenty-something woman spontaneously gets a job babysitting a precocious nine year old, but not everything is as it seems.

A Heist Film(en)

In a local cafeteria, an unlikely trio of friends argue about how to rob the bank from across the street. It all changes when the waitress who serves them discovers their plans.

The End of the Squirrel(en)

The End of the Squirrel is an irreverent indie apocalypse film about two siblings stranded in an antique shop waiting for the impending zombie horde to break in and end their lives. A surrealist sequence provides a visual reflection on their time in the barn, scored by an original song played on a weathered piano uncovered among the mountains of ancient treasures.

Wrath of the Minitaur(en)

Haley wakes up in strange places without any memories of how she got there. Without knowing, she's living a second life: one in which she dances a lot and fights monsters.

Black Lightning: Tobias's Revenge(en)

While on a mission to rescue the kidnapped mayor of Metropolis, Jefferson Pierce aka (Black Lightning) faces his nemesis Tobias Whale and several high ranking members of the 100 gang making it his toughest battle yet.

The Great Glover(en)

Terry (Henry) and his friends pitch in to help the Taylor College scrap drive.

Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers(sv)

A gang in a Volvo have staked out a flat; when its occupants leave to walk their dog, the six break into the place.

Dinner for One auf Hessisch(de)

Double Negative(en)

Horror film director must plot to steal the negative of his film in order to save it from being destroyed in an insurance scam cooked up by his sleazy producers.

Late Night Shopper(en)

A shoplifter thinks all his dreams have come true when he enters a seemingly deserted supermarket. However, he soon discovers he is not alone and getting out becomes a matter of life and death.

The Dig(en)

A man helps a woman bury a dead body.

Wave(en)

A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.

Hairy(es)

A filmmaker scrutinizes his coarse body hair.

Sea Scouts(en)

Donald is an admiral on a seagoing voyage with his nephews in which they encounter a ravenous shark.

Indigenous Police(no)

Three Sámi men travel to the capital of Norway. One of them is wearing gákti, the Sámi traditional costume, to attract Norwegian women. The second one believes it unethical to do this, and the third is bitter that he doesn't attract women when he wears the gákti. Indigenous Police is a Sámi short film told with humor and political sting. It is an identity satire about how people, both the Sámi and the majority population, consciously and unconsciously define what is the right way to be Sámi.

Guardians of Martial Arts(zh)

One day, Master Ma is walking down the street, suddenly he sees the words "Huashan Sect" (华山派) hiding between the green grass. He closes his eyes and hence the duel with different martial arts masters begins.

Sunny Side Up(en)

After receiving a corneal transplant, a man befriends a witty blue-haired girl at the park.